Taken from the book Techniques in Testing from Harold Madsen

1. Chapter Seven
Students: Vivian Burgos
Jocelyn Moreno
Paulina Riquelme
Class: TP V

2. Listening
To evaluate To evaluate more
something else integrative skills
Recognition of
Respond to simple words and structure
commands and pronunciation
features
Sub skills focus on Comprehension is
the linguistic concerned with
components of broader
language communication
Focus on exchange
of facts and ideas
Focus on bits and
and interpreting the
pieces of language
speaker’s intention,
mainly

3. • Native-language Response
Englis
1.-
h or
what?
E.X
2.- Listen to something
in English
Read T/F in Native
Language
Los Caballos
pueden volar
T/F
Listen to something in English, Ex. How far is it to New
3.- York?
a) No muy lejos b) Al sur de Boston c) Como a 200 millas

4. • Picture Cues
1.-
a) The cat is sleeping
b) The cat is running
2.-
• The king has a crown T/F
• The baby is blond Yes / No
• Where is the queen in the picture?

5. • Task Response
Give Arranging
commands objects
Give
Draw with
directions
colors
on a map

6. • Alternative forms of limited response
Choosing the Choosing the
best statement best figure Circle the picture with one cat
• Look at one • Simple charts
picture. or geometric
• Hear three figures.
statements.
• Choose the one
that best
matches it.
•The cat has three eyes
•The cat has two ears
•The cat is bald

7. Advantages
-Not able to write or read
-Flexible techniques
-Easy to prepare
-Easy and quick to score
-Rather objective
Disadvantages
-Native-language responses are
limited
-Native-language responses are
neither needed nor preferred
-Suitable pictures hard to find
-Equipment is usually used

8. Multiple-choice Appropriate Response
Keep the option Learn to adjust the
Focus on meaning
simple difficulty of the items
• Use vocabulary and • The options are • We can take the
grammar that the simple and brief, the items easier or
students already students have to more difficult.
know. keep the stem in
their memory
• The object is to • We can use three
measure the options, and keep
student’s these brief so the
students won’t • There are
understanding of a
become confused. interesting ways to
particular sentence
make an item more
or short dialogue.
difficult.

9. Alternate Forms of multiple-choice appropriate response
There are three aditional ways to use
multiple choice.
Any test should provide an
example to avoid confusion

10. Advantages Limitations
Fast and easy to It is more difficult to
correct. prepare.
Since the reading
It it an integrative, multiple-choice
communicative options is required,
measure of listening. students need to be
literate in English.
Can be scored Cheating is fairly
consistently and
reliably. Easy.

11. To understand social interests
Developed in College Students
(Upper – intermediate to advanced)
Two types of listening tests

12. Lecturette
It has not to be taken from a reading.
Teachers have to use original tapes
of actual lectures.
Three or four lecturettes of 3 to 5 minutes
To keep in Mind:
-Students should take notes while listening.
-Lectures should not be in favour of one
Group of students.
-Questions should not permit to get answers
Right simpl by calling upon logic or general
Knowledge.

13. To keep in mind:
Texts -Students do not have to take notes.
-Radio -Questions should avoid asking about
small details.
-TV Commercials -Questions are kept short, with fairly
-Excerpts from radio simple vocabulary.
dramas -Passages should be spoken at
Normal speed.
-Extended social -Tow or more speakers must be used
conversations For conversation passages.
-Telephone calls -Multiple choice tasks and completion
-Are useful tasks to develop in these
-Routine Business tests.
transactions.

14. ALTERNATE FORMS OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS
1.Examiner voice. Following a dialog, we can introduce a third voice.
2.Sentece completion. A printed sentence-completion item is also
Acceptable.
ADVANTAGES OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS
1. Closely approximate real-life communication.
2. Fast and easy to correct.
3. Scored consistently and reliably.
DISADVANTAGES OF EXTENDED-COMMUNICATION TESTS
1. Students have to be able to read in English.
2. Difficulty to find natural-sounding listening passages.
3. Possibility for students to cheat on these tests.

15. • Limited response
• Multiple-choice appropriate response
• Extended comunication